Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analogy supplied by such subjects as comparative religion and comparative literature, the first course will proceed to develop principles of comparison in the study of education. The course will deal with the fundamental unity of education, the modifying influences of geological, ethnological, social and economic conditions, the actual differences in the educational systems of various countries, the tendency toward world uniformity in education, and the problem of national individuality as affected by education...
...Mexicans to face their problems. Young people from all over Latin America are coming into Mexico to study conditions there. There are young men are women there from Peru and Argentina. They seek inspiration. In studying the problems of Mexico they are facing their own problems, problems of religion, race, land distribution. Mexico's influence in Latin America is great because the people there understand what she is doing. Her influence in Central and South America will be what the influence of the French Revolution, was to contemporary Europe...
Dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key, he talked with students. He quoted figures to show that in 1916, 12.3 per million population died of cirrhosis of the liver, while in 1921 only 7.4 per million were victims of that disease. He was given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...
Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday...
...romantic. Witches, it seems, did not fly picturesquely through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things of this world than was the self-styled "jealous" Father...